Cybersecurity & Risk
Threats, best practices, security investments and risk management for Algerian organizations.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Open Source Security: Supply Chain Attacks and the Growing Crisis
Introduction In March 2024, a Microsoft engineer named Andres Freund was investigating unexplained CPU usage on a Debian Linux server when he stumbled upon one of the most sophisticated software supply chain attacks ever discovered. A malicious contributor who had spent two
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Zero Trust Is No Longer Optional: The Enterprise Security Architecture for 2026
Introduction "Never trust, always verify." The zero trust security model, articulated by Forrester analyst John Kindervag in 2010, spent a decade as a security philosophy more discussed than deployed. The 2020 SolarWinds attack — where trusted network access and trusted
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AI-Powered Cyberattacks: Deepfakes, Social Engineering, and the New Threat Landscape
Introduction For decades, the human element has been the weakest link in cybersecurity. Phishing emails trick employees into revealing passwords.
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The Quantum Clock Is Ticking: Why Every Organization Must Act on Post-Quantum
Introduction There is a countdown happening that most organizations are not tracking. Quantum computers capable of breaking today's widely-used encryption algorithms — RSA, Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman, Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm — are not a certainty, but
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Ransomware Every 19 Seconds: The State of the Global Ransomware Crisis
Introduction By Q3 2025, a ransomware attack was occurring somewhere in the world approximately every 19 seconds. Not every 19 minutes.
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Salt Typhoon: The New Era of State-Sponsored Cyber Warfare
Introduction In late 2024, American officials made a stunning disclosure: Chinese government-linked hackers had infiltrated at least nine major US telecommunications companies — including Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Lumen, Spectrum, and others — and had maintained persistent
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Digital Sovereignty and Cybersecurity: How Algeria Is Building an Independent Cyber
Digital sovereignty — the principle that a nation should control its own digital infrastructure, data, and technology destiny — has become one of the defining policy preoccupations of our era. The European Union is building GAIA-X to reduce dependence on American cloud providers.
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Cybersecurity Compliance for Algerian Startups: A Practical Checklist for 2026
For Algerian startups, cybersecurity compliance can feel like a problem for later — something to worry about when you have paying customers, a real product, and enough runway to think beyond next month's burn rate. This instinct is understandable and almost always wrong.
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Phishing, Ransomware, and Social Engineering: The Top Cyber Threats Targeting Algerian
Understanding which threats are most likely to hit your organization is the foundation of effective cybersecurity. For Algerian businesses in 2026, the threat landscape is shaped by global attack trends, Algeria-specific targeting by threat actors, and the structural
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The 4.8 Million Cybersecurity Professional Gap: What It Means for Algerian Companies
The world faces a structural shortage of cybersecurity professionals. The ISC2 2024 Cybersecurity Workforce Study — the industry's most authoritative annual measurement — put the global shortfall at 4.8 million professionals, the largest gap ever recorded.
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Algeria’s Data Protection Law (18-07): What Every Business Must Know in 2026
Algeria enacted Law No. 18-07 on the protection of personal data in June 2018 — modeled substantially on Europe's GDPR — but for most of its existence it functioned more on paper than in practice.
